Urbanization and Urban Governance in China, 1st ed. 2018 Issues, Challenges, and Development Governing China in the 21st Century Series

This book explores the process of urbanization and the profound challenges to China?s urban governance. Economic productivity continues to rise, with increasingly uneven distribution of prosperity and accumulation of wealth. The emergence of individual autonomy including demands for more freedom and participation in the governing process has asked for a change of the traditional top-down control system. The vertical devolution between the central and local states and horizontal competition among local governments produced an uneasy political dynamics in Chinese cities. Many existing publications analyze the urban transformation in China but few focuses on the governance challenges. It is critical to investigate China?s urbanization, paying special attention to its challenges to urban governance. This edited volume fills this gap by organizing ten chapters of distinctive urban development and governance issues. 

1. The Changing Industrial Transformation in the Pearl River Delta: Issues, Challenges and Intergovernmental Coordination.- 2. Emerging Urban-Regions in Central China: Case of Upper Yangtze River Delta.- 3. The New Global Economy and New Direction of China’s Urbanization.- 4. A Genealogy of Redevelopment in Chinese Cities.- 5. Creativity and Inequality: The Dual Path of China’s Urban Development.- 6. Urban Development and Branding Strategies for Emerging Global Cities in China.- 7. Housing Challenges in Chinese Cities under Urbanization 8. Informality in Governing Mega Cities in China: The Example of Shenzhen.- 9. Local Government Fragmentation and Fiscal Disparity across Chinese Cities.- 10. The Modes of Government Response to Internet Political Participation for Policy making in Chinese Cities. 

Lin Ye is Associate Professor in the School of Government, Sun Yat-sen University, China.

Offers a more tightly knitted and concrete analysis on the governance issues of China’s urbanization Examines how China’s urban governance needs to evolve and respond to the challenges of urbanization. Explores practical recommendations for China’s future urbanization